The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-07-12
DOLLY.
She Genes to the Front With
Some Straight Goods i'm
The Way OF
Talk.

was sitting few evenings ago, and
said dolly, this is a queer old world
isn't it?"
was not particularly interested in
the somewhat stale remark, but while
threaded the needle with which I
was darning a rather forlorn looking
pair of hose belonging to baby Flossie,
/ said. "Well, yes, believe it is, but
what made the thought occur to you
just al present ?
ooh / dunno" answered Will, but
to-day Mr.. H and Sam c.
came into nay Office and after discuss
ing Cleveland's declared off visit to
St. Louis and the prospects of Blaine's
election to the presidency, they put
their feet little higher, Lit couple
of fresh cigars, and began on a little
neighborhood gossip. Said Sam,
-'Will, what do you think about
that affair going the rounds
when it is said a certain married
man in this city has gotten
himself into a scrape with his wife
concerning one of his EN-.
ployes? [ said, 81 haven't thought
much about it, why?" "Well you see
there is blamed sight of talk, and
hang me if / don't believe it is nothing
more than case of jealous wife and a
wronged woman"
Said Mr.. H-"Not having the
same faith in my sex, that you have
Sam, / am inclined to think that it is
a case of a wronged wife and a de-
signing woman, and that where there
is 80 much smoke there is considerable
fire."
They then fell into details, and one
told how the wife had declared to q
'friend of my wife, that she had
convincing evidence of her hus-
bands guilt, and that she was
broked-hearted in consequence, and
the other told how the woman in the
case had, through tears, told her side
of the affair, and asserted that she
was indeed innocent of any wrong,
but that her circumstances compelled
her to work where she could get the
most pay, and hence she was made the
victim of wife's jealousy. / listened
as they talked on and as l had moth
ing to say in the matter, l was not
much interested beyond the mere de-
tails, only, Dolly could not help
thinking that two women are being
wronged by bad man and would
like to know what you think of it?
We'll" l said thoughtfully, "Will
/ know all the details in the matter
to which you refer, 30 far as the gen.
ersl public is concerned, but since [
have not even spoken to you of them,
it may we'll be presumed that 1 have
not gossiped about them. Thinking
the whole story over, however, am
inclined to believe with you that two
women are being wronged. In the
first place no wife should act the spy
on her husband if she has one particle
of respect for him, you know trifes
light as air are easily magnified into
overt acts when a wife has her eye to
the key hole of her husbands daily
deeds, and on the other hand, if she
knowing him-has no respect for him,
she owes it to her own dignity and
position to quietly leave him and get
the law to help her do it. do not, as
you know, believe in divorces
save for the scriptural permitted
cause, and / calculate from this that
no wife will quite lose respect for her
husband while he is true to her in
word and deed at least. This being
granted then, a wife, as | said before.
should not act the spy on her hus-
band. But since no rule can be laid
down for the control of women as a
body, it may be said that in case of
the kind mentioned, a wife, should
she 90 forget herself as to spy on her
husband and thus discover something,
which may have NO peculiar signif-
canoe to anybody but herself, she
should be careful, very careful how
she confdes in her friends. Nobody
respects wife the more for keeping
the cover constantly off a domestic
skeleton and SO preverse is the world,
of men especially, that nine times in
ten the wife loses by such q course the
sympathy which rightfully belongs to
her. Then as to the woman in the
case.
In this day and generation it is per-
mitted to men to employ female help
it saves money my dear Will. the
chief excuse believe since that
employment must of necessity engen-
q certain familiarity, there is every
reason to believe that no matter
how innocent such familiarity may
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